Drunk : The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary by Paul Dickson
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Author: Paul Dickson
Page Count: 202 pages
Published Date: 12 Nov 2009
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication Country: Brooklyn, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781933633756
File size: 40 Mb
File Name: Drunk.The.Definitive.Drinker's.Dictionary.pdf
Download Link: Drunk The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary
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Here it is: from a "Guinness World Records" holder, the most English synonyms ever recorded for a single word--"drunk."
Wise-guy lexicographer Paul Dickson, a consulting editor at "Merriam-Webster," has long held the record for collecting the "Most Synonyms" for any term in the English language. He made the "Guinness Book of World Records "with 2,231 terms meaning "drunk"-beating out no less than Benjamin Franklin, who published his own list ("The Drinker's Dictionary") in 1736. But records are made to be broken . . . .
Enter "Drunk," wherein Dickson breaks his own record with 2,964 terms for tipsy: blitzed, roasted, on the sauce, whazood, whiskey frisky, and Boris Yelstinned.
An introduction puts the list into context: Why are there so many synonyms for "drunk" and how did Dickson get to collecting them? Dickson's wacky terms are annotated, too, and lushly illustrated, explaining the twist and turns of a language that has thousands of ways to describe somebody who is two sheets to the wind. How, for example, does a word like "blotto" go from the lips of P.G. Wodehouse, into the writings of Edmund Wilson, before landing with Otto from "The Simpsons" ("My name is Otto, I like to get blotto").
It's a terrific exploration of language and a meditation on drinking culture throughout the ages.
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